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Re:Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores by jodrellblank on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:10PM (#23654333)
Windows 7 came out in 2009, at least three years before candy crush.

> they're an OS developer and they can't spend a day figuring out a floating point bug?

Maybe it’s bad to argue by appeal to authority, but I take Raymond Chen’s side that it was a hard problem to debug in the time available over some internet sneering that it must have been easy, any day.

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Re:Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @07:36PM (#23665587)
> Windows 7 came out in 2009, at least three years before candy crush.

Well they haven't ported it in the decade since.

> in the time available

Same response.

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